Crystal LoGiudice-US PRESSWIRE The Giants selected LSU wide receiver Rueben Randle with their second-round pick, 63rd overall. Randle is seemingly a replacement for Mario Manningham, who signed with the 49ers earlier in the offseason.

When Super Bowl hero Mario Manningham packed his bags and headed west to San Francisco, questions loomed about who would step in and step up, a la Victor Cruz did last season when Domenik Hixon tore his ACL.

There are possible options on the roster: Ramses Barden, Jerrel Jernigan and Hixon himself.

With their second-round pick, 63rd overall, in the NFL Draft, the Giants selected LSU wide receiver Rueben Randle. And he won't have to do much traveling; Randle was the final player remaining in the green room of the 26 invited to the draft at Radio City Music Hall across the Hudson.

Randle, 20, is an early-entrant in the draft, declaring for the NFL after a junior season in which he caught 53 passes for 917 yards, by far his most productive campaign in Baton Rouge. He was projected as a late-first-round to second-round draft pick but tumbled all the way down to end of the second round where the Giants, who always seek value, jumped on the opportunity to choose the former high school quarterback

The 6-2, 208-pounder ran a 4.5 40-yard dash and had a 31-inch vertical leap at the combine.